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ricksserver

Online EU 66.51.97.59:28035 checked 1h ago

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Vital stats

Players now 0/ 50 slots 0% full steadyagainst this time yesterday
7-day average0peak 5
Rank#7,320top 33% · #2024 in EU
RegionEUEU · group 8, the default
Last wipe4d agomonthly schedule
Next wipe8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTC FW
The rise

Players

AveragePeak
0123419:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

Hourly average and peak, UTC.

Behind the scenes

Server performance

0246819:0004:0013:0023:0008:0017:00

48 hours: hourly readings. 30 to 90 days: one point a day, with the day's average and lowest fps, most entities and most memory, measured since 18 Sep. From asking the server directly; low fps and a climbing entity count mean lag.

Climbing the charts

Rank

daily · 1 is best
RankRank in region
15k10k15k20k20 Sep28 Sep5 Oct13 Oct20 Oct28 Oct

Top 33% of all ranked servers, top 69% in EU. Ranked on player hours over the last seven days.

The wipe diary

Wipe schedule

force wipes only

Next wipe Thursday 5 November, 19:00 UTC, in 8d 0h. The force wipe · high confidence

5.4 days
usual gap
between real wipes
50%
on rhythm
of its recent wipes
3
wipe-day peak
players, last three wipes
0%
crowd held
else halves by day 1.5

Coming wipes

8d 0hThu 5 Nov, 19:00 UTCFW
36d 0hThu 3 Dec, 19:00 UTCFW

The first 48 hours of its last wipes

Sat 24 OctMon 19 OctSun 27 Sep
01234+0h+9h+19h+28h+38h+47h

Players each hour, from the hour of the wipe. The latest peaked at 5, 2 hours in.

Past seasons

Wipes

newest first
WipedPeakCrowdLastedPlayers before
Sat 24 Oct, 13:59 UTC4d ago 5 – running 0
Mon 19 Oct, 02:31 UTC9d ago 0 – 5.5 days 0
Sun 27 Sep, 15:58 UTC31d ago 3 halved by day 2 21.4 days 0
Sat 26 Sep, 14:40 UTC32d ago 5 – 1.1 days 0
Sun 20 Sep, 23:25 UTC37d ago 5 halved by day 1 5.6 days 0
Sat 19 Sep, 02:34 UTC39d ago 5 – 1.9 days 0
Sun 13 Sep, 17:34 UTC45d ago 4 halved by day 1 5.4 days 0

Peak: the most players in the first 48 hours. Crowd: whether every day of the wipe kept at least half that peak, or the day it fell below. A new world less than six hours after a wipe is a restart, not a wipe of its own.

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The interview

Quick answers

From the figures on this page.

Tags

Which Rust Pop Watch lists and filters include ricksserver?

These are the Rust Pop Watch lists that include ricksserver: European Rust servers, live and Community servers, by the numbers. These filters bring it up on the server list: Region: Europe; Type: Community (not modded, not official) and No plugins at all; Server tag: Monthly ^m; Group limit: 5 or more; Wipe schedule: Monthly; Last wipe: In the last week.

What do the server tags on ricksserver mean?

The game's server browser picks up these tags from ricksserver: gmrust (Game mode): Survival, standard Rust style; mp50 (Max players): It has 50 slots; ts8 (Group limit): Teams cap at 8, which is the game default; v2635 (Protocol): You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635; cs168909 (Build): The game build is 168909; ptrak (Networking): It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game; $r? (Region code): No region code has been set; ^m (Monthly): The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe; EU (Europe): Its place in the server browser is under Europe. You'll find players now, queue length and world creation time in the tags, printed at the top of this page.

Player counts

How does ricksserver rank against other Rust servers?

ricksserver takes #7,320 on seven-day player hours, a top 33% spot overall and #2,024 across Europe.

How many players are on ricksserver right now?

0 players are on ricksserver at the moment, out of 50 slots. Averaging 0 players across seven days, it topped out at 5.

About the server

Is ricksserver online, and how reliable is it?

Right now, ricksserver is up and running. Based on the uptime it reports, the last restart was about 4 days 2 hours ago. It was up 100% of the time over the last 7 full days, 168 of 168 hours in total. The first time Rust Pop Watch saw it was 13 September 2026.

Does ricksserver run smoothly?

Average server fps for the last 48 hours was 5, and it never went below 5. At its peak it held 17,003 entities: buildings, deployables and all the rest. Memory use peaked at 1,367 MB. What players experience as lag comes from low fps and a rising entity count.

Where is ricksserver located?

In Europe, ricksserver lists itself with its EU tag. Rust Pop Watch does not look up where the machine stands; it shows where a server says it is. You'll find it at 66.51.97.59:28035.

Which Rust version is ricksserver on?

Rust network protocol 2635 and build 168909 is the version ricksserver runs on Linux. To join, your game must be on the same protocol; Steam handles the update.

Wipe times

What happens on ricksserver when wipe day comes around?

The average busiest crowd over recent wipes was 3 players. The latest wipe's crowd was busiest 2 hours after it began. The crowd stayed above half that peak until the next wipe in 0% of its recent wipes. The crowd fell under half by day 1.5 whenever it did not hold.

What is the wipe schedule on ricksserver?

Wipes on ricksserver come once a month, alongside the force wipe. The force wipe on Thursday 5 November at 19:00 UTC is its next wipe, and every Rust server wipes then. The world it is running now dates from 4 days 4 hours. A wipe schedule of one wipe a month is published in its tags.

Rules and settings

Which map does ricksserver run?

Generated by the game with seed 1293201566, the map on ricksserver is procedural and 1,900 in size. Look at it on RustMaps from this page: the same size and seed always make the same map.

What are the rules and settings on ricksserver?

No gather rate appears in the name of ricksserver. Eight players per group: that is the game's default. It runs survival, the usual game of gathering, building and raiding. Raids and PvP are both on the table. Community is its listing in the server browser. The VAC anti-cheat from Valve is on.

How to join

How do I join ricksserver?

The console method: start Rust, press F1, and type client.connect 66.51.97.59:28035. Launch Rust on this page is another way, opening Rust via Steam and connecting.

Decoded

Server tags

what each one means

Published as mp50,ptrak,$r?,v2635,^m,EU,gmrust,cs168909,ts8

Game

gmrust
Game mode Survival, standard Rust style.
mp50
Max players It has 50 slots.
ts8
Group limit Teams cap at 8, which is the game default.
v2635
Protocol You need the same game version to get in: protocol 2635.
cs168909
Build The game build is 168909.
ptrak
Networking It uses RakNet, the standard network layer for the game.
$r?
Region code No region code has been set.

Wipe schedule

^m
Monthly The wipe schedule is monthly, alongside Facepunch's force wipe.

Region

EU
Europe Its place in the server browser is under Europe.

Players now (cp), the queue (qp) and the wipe time (born) are in the tag string too; they change every few minutes and are shown at the top of the page. Flag meanings are Facepunch's.